Also, if I recall 1997 correctly, there were a lot of people who couldn't name "Chumbawamba" or "Tubthumping" even at the height of that song's popularity.

Flashback to 10 years ago, when I was the lone 22-year-old in an office mostly filled with 40-somethings. Somehow, a reference to a lyric from Captain & Tennille's "Muskrat Love" came up in a meeting, which lead to other C&T references, and I was roundly ridiculed for being the only one who didn't any of these jokes.

NOT COOL. I am simply not yet prepared to think about a world where Lou Reed and Joni Mitchell are both no longer with us.

But the hashtag!

Weirdly enough, I found myself scrolling through his Twitter feed right after he was named host. I didn't go far back enough to find anything remotely offensive, but I was a bit shocked by how generally unfunny he is on the platform. This was the one that worried me in particular:

"Hey, do you love Spotify?"

Absolutely. Hell, I remember a decade ago it really felt like hip-hop and R&B were running on fumes a bit. Look at what was topping the charts back then: Nelly, Mims, Akon, Yung Joc, Ne-Yo, T-Pain, rapidly-declining-Eminem, increasingly-self-parodic-Crunk acts…Kanye was one of the only mainstream rappers putting out…

While reading the "Going Clear" book, the description of Operation Snow White was the part that made me stop and go, "no, fuck off, this HAS to be bullshit. This is too much."

!!! How did I not know this existed?

Definitely in the top 5. And Nina Simone is at least in the top 10 English-speaking singers of the 20th century. Which is to say that I love everything about this cover.

Among the many things that go wrong with this article (from the premise all the way to the grammar and spelling — seriously, when I first saw it posted, even the headline had a typo), here are the ones that jumped out at me:

Which is exactly why I have so little sympathy for Clarkson. Not that punching a producer and generally being a dick is in any way remotely comparable to decades of child molestation, but any intelligent person would realize that the BBC is going to be particularly unlikely to ignore bad behavior from its stars at…

Next time do better.

I'm glad you brought up the classical music angle, because Handel aside, the practice of adapting existing melodies into symphonies or operas was so common in earlier centuries that it was hardly even worth commenting upon. Bartok and Dvorak were all about finding previously untapped folk music to appropriate in their…

I take absolutely no joy in not getting Drake. It's something I've sincerely tried to rectify a few times, as I would love to be able to hear what so many critics/friends describe to me when they write/talk about his music. I find the production interesting, if a little too sleepy. I'm not some sort of backpacker…

Such interpretations are often mostly bullshit, but the idea that "The Waste Land" already WAS a gay poem has been around for 60 years, making this whole thing doubly ridiculous…

The shorter works of Washington Irving, read by someone called "Dr. J"…

Yeah, GTA4 was where I first realized how out-of-step with the dominant gaming culture I was becoming. To me, that game was so obviously better than its predecessors (and its follow-up) that it hardly seemed worth debating. It actually had balance — enough low-key missions for the world to feel real, enough shitty…

Yep. Fully enjoyed my evil killing spree through the game until I got there. Spent the rest of the game as a born-again Boy Scout.

Bizarrely deceptive. You would think selling this as what it actually is — a pretty damn funny SpongeBob movie with some live-action weirdness thrown in at the end — would've been enough.